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pest, pestilence, plague | any epidemic disease with a high death rate | |
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pestilence, canker | a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of | |
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pest, pestilence, plague, pestis | a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal |